Inventors are much maligned people who get caricatured as lonesome and
strange people who occasionally appear with cranky gadgets that succeed in
the marketplace even less often. Invention is, nevertheless, the engine of
civilization and inventors are the creators of your
future, so treat them
well!

‘In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows,
tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, short-hand
which has been carried to such a pitch of perfection that a writer can keep pace
with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for
the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper.